- UPDATED: November 1, 2018 – EVENT REGISTRATION IS CLOSED ! Now we need teams to complete their payments.
- UPDATED-Nov 1- CHECK THIS LINK to check if your team has:
- 1) Paid National Registration,
- 2) has submitted an FTC OREGON Event Sign up
- 3) if you FTC Oregon Event Payment was received – ALL PAYMENTS FOR EVENTS ARE DUE on or before November 16, 2018 for all teams, all League and Non-League QT events.
- This will secure your slot in your assigned event
- Any teams not paid by that date and still wanting to participate, will need to pay the Full Cost of the Program fee and will not be eligible to take the sliding scale discount.
- UPDATED-Nov 1- CHECK THIS LINK to check if your team has:
- PAYMENT INFORMATION
- Please note: Starting in the 2018-2019 season, teams who do not submit event payments by the deadline (Nov 16) will not be eligible to request a discounted fee and will be sent an invoice at the Full Cost of Program fee.
- League Meets & League QT (all events included) – sliding scale $400 (full cost of program) – $200 (minimum for those in financial need).
- All Payments must be in by October 31st – Must have credit card, check or the Purchase Order.
- LEAGUE – Pay by Credit Card
- LEAGUE – Pay By Check –
- LEAGUE – Pay by Purchase Order followed by check
- NON-LEAGUE Qualifying Tournament (one event) – sliding scale $300 (full cost of program) – $150 (minimum for those in financial need)
- All Payments must be in by November 16th – Must have credit card, check or the Purchase Order.
- NON-LEAGUE – Pay by Credit Card
- NON-LEAGUE –Pay by Check
- NON-LEAGUE – Pay by Purchase Order followed by check
- League Meets & League QT (all events included) – sliding scale $400 (full cost of program) – $200 (minimum for those in financial need).
- Please note: Starting in the 2018-2019 season, teams who do not submit event payments by the deadline (Nov 16) will not be eligible to request a discounted fee and will be sent an invoice at the Full Cost of Program fee.
Tournaments: League and Non-League Events
FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon is a hybrid region offering two pathways to participation in tournament events. Both League and Non-League paths advance to the FIRST Tech Challenge Super Qualifiers and FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Championship. Teams that perform well at the FTC Oregon State Championship may advance to Houston for the FIRST World Championships.
All league qualifying tournaments and non-league qualifying tournaments are one day tournaments that will occur on weekends in January. Teams compete in ONE Qualifying Tournament.
League and Non-League Qualifying Tournaments include formal inspection, judging session, 5 matches, alliance selection, elimination round and awards/advancement ceremony.
FIRST Dean’s List Semi-Finalists will be interviewed at League and Non-League Qualifying Tournaments.
2018-2019 FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Event Calendar – overview
NEW Inspection Guidelines for ALL TEAMS, ALL EVENTS
PRINTING YOUR OFFICIAL TEAM ROSTER TO PRESENT AT THE TEAM CHECK-IN DESK FOR EACH EVENT
FTC Oregon League Information
League Meets – October 10 – December 16
League Meet days are established by each individual league to best meet the needs of the teams in the league. Leagues Meets will be held 3 – 4 times between October 10 – December 16th. League Meets are ~4 hours in length and include inspection and 5 matches. Usually it consists of League Meet 0 (workshops/no points count) and 3 League Meets (best 10 matches from 3 league meets are carried forward to the League Qualifying Tournament). Teams compete in a League Qualifying Tournament in January and a percentage of teams advance to Super-Qualifier Weekend. League Teams do not carry any points to SQ Weekend.
- FTC Oregon League pages – Click on link to see full schedule, map links, updates, messages to teams from League Managers, rankings
- Capitol League – Salem
- meet dates: Nov 17, Dec 8 (double meet)
- Cedar Mill League – NW Portland
- meet dates: Nov 3, Nov 17, Dec 8
- Central Oregon League
- meet dates: Nov 7 , Nov 28 , Dec 12 (double meet)
- Columbia Basin League-Pendleton
- meet dates: Nov 13, Nov 29, Dec 18
- Mid-Columbia League – Hood River
- meet dates: Nov 08 , Nov 29, Dec 06, Dec 20
- Midwestern League – Junction City
- meet dates: Nov 17 , Dec 15 (double meet)
- North Coast League – Tillamook
- meet dates: Nov 10, Dec 1, Dec 15
- Rose City League – NE Portland
- meet dates: Nov 15, Nov 30, Dec 14
- Silicon Forest League – Hillsboro
- meet dates: Nov 3(0), Nov 10, Dec 1, Dec 15
- Southern Oregon Area Robotics League (SOAR)- Roseburg
- meet dates: Nov 3 (0), Nov 17, Dec 8 (double meet)
- Tualatin Valley League – Tigard
- meet dates: Nov 3 (0), Nov 18, Dec 2, Dec 15
- Capitol League – Salem
Non- League Qualifying Tournament Information
Non- League teams design, build and program their robot in the fall at team meeting and prepare to attend one Qualifying Tournament in January with formal inspection, judging, matches and awards. A percentage of teams will advance to Super-Qualifier weekend in February.
- Philomath HS – January 19 – Philomath, Oregon (near Corvallis)
- Philomath HS – January 20 – Philomath, Oregon (near Corvallis)
- Tigard HS – January 27 – Tigard, Oregon (SW of Portland)
Advancement Tournaments
Super-Qualifier Weekend (by advancement only)
Teams will advance from League/Non-League Qualifying Tournaments to FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Super-Qualifier Weekend.
There are 3 separate tournaments; each with 32 teams. Includes formal inspection, judging session, 5 matches, alliance selection, elimination round and awards/advancement ceremony
Super-Qualfier Weekend will be held Feb 9 and 10.
2018-2019 Locations: SQ-Delta – Saturday, Feb 9, Roseburg HS, SQ-Theta – Saturday, Feb 10, Evergreen HS, SQ-Pi – Sunday, February 10
FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Championship (by advancement only)
~50% of teams will advance from the Super-Qualifiers to the FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Championship. This is a two-day event. 48 teams advance to the Championship. It is a two-division (Timber and Tech) event.
FTC Oregon Championship will be held March 9 and 10 at Liberty HS in Hillsboro.
FIRST Tech Challenge West Super-Regional – this event has been discontinued. Teams will advance from the FTC Oregon State Championship to FTC World Championship
FIRST World Championship (by advancement only)
FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship: Houston is part of the FIRST World Championship (for all four FIRST programs). 160 teams from 20+ countries compete.
FIRST World Championship is held at the Georgia Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, April 17 – 20, 2019. In 2017-2018 Oregon sent 10 teams to the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship.
